Lately
Ask any product question. Get the real human consensus — with the receipts.
Lately synthesises recent human opinion from source-locked feeds — Bluesky, YouTube, and the web — into a single verified Brief for any "should I buy it?" question. The whole loop (ask → Brief → track → alert → paywall) runs locally with zero API keys and lights up real consensus and real payments as keys are added. Built to test one hypothesis: will consumers pay to follow a topic?
Challenge
Product reviews are scattered across subreddits, YouTube comment sections, and review sites — biased, stale, and impossible to follow for changes.
Solution
A source-locked synthesis engine aggregates only commercial-safe sources, clusters consensus into a readable Brief, and sends change-detection alerts when opinion shifts. The paywall hits the second tracked topic — testing willingness to pay before building anything else.
How Lately compares
| The old way | Lately | |
|---|---|---|
| Sources | One blog's opinion | Real owners on Bluesky, YouTube, and the web |
| Freshness | Whatever ranks on Google | Recent posts from people who actually use it |
| Honesty | Paid affiliate links | Links you can click and check yourself |
| After you buy | You're on your own | We keep watching and tell you when something changes |
Pricing
Free
Ask as much as you want. Track one topic. We check in weekly.
Plus
A few dollars a monthTrack everything you're shopping for. We check daily, so you're the first to know when opinions start to shift.